snipe (was Re: Assorted comments)

[Mullins, Bill]

>On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 06:03:14PM -0500, Bethany K. Dumas wrote:
>> On Sat, 27 Nov 2004, Jesse Sheidlower wrote:
>>
>> >> I ran into this term this week - is its use widespread? Here is a
>> >> quotation from a recent WSJ story about sniping on eBay:
>> >
>> >Yes, it's extremely widespread.
>>
>> Thanks. What other contexts does it occur in?
>
>None, so far as I know. That is, there are other current
>verbs _to snipe_ (the other newish one referring to the
>surreptitious placement of advertising stickers for
>music promotion), but this is pretty exclusive to eBay
>and similar sites.
>

I found another context, which I posted here:


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